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Morning Brew: September 5th, 2008
Photo: "Kensington" by SEATTLE DREDGE, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
Your Toronto morning news roundup AND POLL for Friday September 5th, 2008:
Commuters that use routes at the 401/404/DVP junction can expect traffic nightmares to continue today, and possibly into the weekend. The cleanup and road repairs resulting from the truck fire on Wednesday night are extensive (and it doesn't help that for every working person, there are four leaning on shovels, watching).
Israeli flight crew employees of the airline El Al were reportedly being monitored by Hezbollah terrorists right here in Toronto, while they stayed at the Sheraton Centre during layovers. CSIS is saying nothing, but I'm saying we need some good non-terrorist Lebanese to come to Toronto and open a restaurant because it's near impossible to get good Kofta and Batata harra in this city.
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A Seneca College flight instructor was flying two students to Vermont when the plane's engine failed and the pilot had to make an emergency landing on a New York interstate. How cool would it be to see that happen on your way home from work (and not be a Hollywood action flick playing on your dashboard DVD player)?
Let there be hot Euro strippers?! A Toronto lawyer is calling Bill C-17 (which aims to prevent the exploitation and abuse of foreign workers) unconstitutional. Only in Canada would we see this kind of law and resulting legal battle.
And over at Spacing, they've taken a look at the effects of CNE parking on the neighbourhood of Parkdale. Does a couple of weeks of makeshift car parking on lawns each year really do that much damage?
If you could, who would you vote for in the November US federal election: Obama or McCain?
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Rolling my eyes at Matt Blackett. The chaos of CNE time, including parking on the lawns, is a Parkdale tradition. It's rather inexplicable that the City allows it, but hey, odd little things like that make the city interesting.
The trees are doing just fine, too.
A minority government is exactly what Canadians want. It limits the damage that a partisan, self-important PM can cause. If Harper isn't happy with fulfilling the mandate we gave him, then he needs to step down, rather than break his word and force us into an election just to put him down. I'm voting NDP, not because I want the fools in power but because I don't want a Conservative or Liberal majority.
Re CNE parking in Parkdale: It's a non-issue. The same thing x 100 happens in Calgary every Stampede.
Personally, I'd rather see Dion win at least a minority. I can't stand Harper and his neo-con cronies, nor can I tolerate Layton... *sigh* If only there were small c fiscal conservatives and social liberals...
Harper is going to win (current polls suggest he will) because Dion is a whiny little bitch that seems to be afraid to speak up and nobody will vote the NDP in with Layton behind the helm.
Crap. Do I HAVE to vote for Dion just to keep Harper in check? I really hate this.
It seemed to me that in the last parliament the NDP was the defacto opposition because of how frequently the Liberals sat on their hands. I'm probably going to end up rewarding the NDP for that with my vote. But I'm in Toronto and if Dion is going to have any chance at taking back the government from Harper he'll have to win back a bunch of Quebec ridings and a few in the prairies. So I guess I don't feel a moral obligation to vote out Harper rather than voting for the party I think will do the best job.
- CBC
- Skeletor
- Flying Spaghetti Monster.... None of these jerks are worth voting for.
- Somebody who can take our orders
Flying spaghetti monster was me again. I wish that we all experience the benevolent rule of His Noodliness... Makes a lot more sense than voting for Layton.
Anyway, I'm hoping for a reduced Harper minority: the Conservatives will know their support is tentative and the message will be sent that Dion needs to be replaced immediately.
Also, in Traitor (the new Don Cheadle movie), some high level terrorists plan an attack on the US in a lebanese restaurant in Toronto. A long branch streetcar goes by it.
We already knew Parliament is dysfunctional. We already knew it's the Conservatives that make it that way. But now it seems obvious that this was the Conservatives plan all along.
I also find it offensive when they don't vote because it allows the Liberals to say things without being accountable to a voting record. And when getting a politician (of any party) to talk straight is like nailing Jello to a wall, that voting record is damn important to me in deciding whether that individual has acted in a way I can support.
- Justin Trudeau
- Bob Rae
The first commenter says it's a traidtion to park on lawns. That doesn't mean its right; when my dad went to U of T in the 50s it was tradition to chase the gay man cruising and beat them up. Times change and we can always correct our mistakes. the CNE parking fiasco is one of them.
Unless something earth shattering happens, Harper wins a bigger minority, Dion's out, we'll be back at this some point in 2011. (Those who remember the last couple of elections federally will know it's not impossible for that to happen)